Woman Stuck in Tesla For 40 Minutes With 115 Degrees Temperature During Vehicle Update
Woman Allegedly 'Stuck' in Tesla For 40 Minutes With 115 Degrees Temperature During Vehicle Update
So obviously, fuck Teslas.
But it says she didn't used the manual release because she thought it might somehow hurt her car?
And she didn't update it for 6 years and choose waiting for a Chick-fil-A order was the right time, even tho she expected it to take 24 minutes?
Like, what kind of Chick-fil-A takes 24 minutes to make an order, she knew it would be ready before it's done.
This is one of those situations where there's no victim, she's an idiot but Tesla's suck
According to the article she did update the car before. She just used to have it done at night, and this is the first time she was in the car during an update.
40 minutes is a hell of a long time for a software update though.
She's 100% an idiot. When a Tesla needs updating it gives you the option between scheduling it later (by default 2am) or doing it now. When you select do it now it specifically warns you some features may NOT be available and list both the HVAC and doors.
That TikTok, as 99% of others, is concentrated bullshit.
She a tik tok thot purposefully biding for attention.
And that's the entire story. All of it.
She is dumb for not using the manual release but why the fuck does it take 40 minutes to do an update?
Have you ever run a software upgrade to another brand of car? I was once present when a BMW was updated and it took 40 minutes to scan the CAN for all of the control network members, after which the update could start.
Shitty design is still shitty design, even if all car makers are bad at it.
And I'd bet it comes down to hardware decisions that ended up saving tiny percentages of the total cost.
LOL my cars are from 1988, 1999 and 2003. I don't get updates. I do have to do a lot of repairs, but no updates.
Yep, my ford took 25 minutes to do the update that added Android Auto, after 2 minutes of downloading it to a USB stick. The car only has USB 2.0, so that could be a factor though
My VW Passat took the whole two hours it took me to drive to my parents house. Had to sit in their drive for 15 minutes for it to complete.
It was just a maps update from DVD.
Is it me or does this seem staged? Or do I just automatically assume that when something gets 30 million views and the person looks like they brought in a stylist first.
Looks like a filter to me
What Degrees?
46 °C
Thanks!
Understandably, she grew anxious about running out of air as the windows wouldn't roll down.
Didn't know Teslas were air sealed... 🤣
You don't remember Musk talking about biohazard mode? If you aren't a nerdy user that tries to understand all the details, it might be easy to confuse.
Oh, you are right. The fact that air-conditioning (which is the basis for the biohazard mode) was disabled due to the software update was absolutely not mentioned neither in the article, nor the video.
By the way, nice gatekeeping.
Tesla offers manual door releases for situations with depleted power, but Janel opted to wait, fearing potential damage to her car.
Are Teslas made from tracing paper? How would manually opening the door damage her car?
Normally, when you want to open the door, you push the door button, the door window drops and opens an inch or so, clearing to door seals. The emergency door releases force the windows through the door seals without the window drop. If you do that too much, you'll damage the door seals. If you do it rarely, it doesn't matter.
Just another incredible design flaw that never should have made it to production.
That sounds like a horrible design for a car door lol. Did they not see how all the other car doors worked before they built theirs?
Who came up with that garbage design? LOL
Well that's just shitty car design. Guess that's what you get when you have a bunch of software and computer engineers try to make a car.
Engineering aside, Tesla cars simply have terrible build quality. They're like the Stellantis of the EV market now. Why anyone still buys them new it seems I will never understand.
It's a car for people who know nothing about cars
It's the Apple of cars, if you will.
Lol what a load of shit. This chick is dumb at least 3 ways:
There are many, MANY design features of a Tesla that suck (as anyone who has one will tell you), but article is clickbait from user stupidity. She needs to wear her helmet at all times for not using the feature designed to let her get out at any moment. Even IF she bent the weather stripping, it would cost less than her chicken sandwiches to fix.
You can just tell that most people here only read headlines. There was manual way to open the doors, that she didn't use.
She wasn't in danger for sure, but she also didn't want to risk harming the trim of her already quickly depreciating car. Remember that Tesla, in their infinite design wisdom, decided the window trim should overlap the glass and be fixed. If you use the manual release the door opens without opening the windows, thus bending and risking destroying the window trim.
That's bullshit though. Anybody with a Tesla can tell you that 2 in every 3 people who sit in it WILL pull the manual release to exit. It's not good for the trim and I do correct people, but this is some princess bullshit.
It's also fucking stupid to update the car while you're in it. The app literally tells you that the car will be unavailable.
What if I only read the headline, but I clicked through to the comments to see the fun and varied ways lemmings explained the obvious problem with the headline. Re: The manual door releases
This is why trunks are required to have an emergency opening latch on the inside. Because children fucking died from exactly this.
Whyyyyy do car manufacturers feel it is necessary to drive the car locking mechanism with software? What benefit does this give anyone?
seems like a webcar is a bad idea
Skill issue
That's why you don't buy a Tesla.
It really wouldn't be that hard to make a system that can update in the background. I feel like for something like a car you should be trying at least that hard.
If your cars aren't idiot proof you shouldn't market them exclusively to idiots.
Tesla offers manual door releases for situations with depleted power, but Janel opted to wait, fearing potential damage to her car. "Inside my car, it's 103 degrees, so I'm slightly freaking out. I hope I don't run out of air," Janel said.
Doors are made of paper?
Car washes ruin them. I wouldn't be surprised at all if opening a door from the inside does something too.
Apparently since the Tesla doors don't have a top frame that swings out with the door glass, the window needs to roll down like an inch when you open the door so the glass won't catch on the trim, and the manual release tries to do it but might not if the power is out which might damage the trim.
This is true, but there are also plenty of cars without a top frame on the door that are fine without this. My NC Miata among them. The windows do go down an inch for putting the top up/down, but not for opening the doors.
Typical software company 🤦
What exactly about the manual release damages the car? When my friend got his Model 3 he told me his friends would constantly use the manual release because the normal electronic one was less obvious. His car and doors didn’t break in any of those cases.
On the Model 3, opening too quickly with the manual release can apparently damage the vehicle trim at the top of the window. The manual doesn't give that level of detail, so all many people know is that using the manual release can damage the car.
The Tesla door doesn't have a frame around the window. So to insulate better the car rolls the window up into the seals. When you use the electronic door opener the window rolls down a bit to get out of the seals.
Sounds like these cars should come with some level of training.
Or critical systems shouldn't be rendered completely inoperable during shit like that.
Nobody knows what pov means now or what
Is this an appropriate place to make a joke about teaching her what it means? 👀
Bonk
Enough time to RTFM unless Tesla doesn't include one
It's a PDF accessed via the touchscreen, because of course it is.
Of course. /Rollseyes
And if not that's what Google is for.
That's why you need a glasbreaker in your car. Or in case of a tesla I guess melt your way out with a lighter or shit, idk.
Just another one of life’s cruel reminders that no amount of money can save you in some situations. Maybe the fire department, if they bring the jaws of life. Let’s hope your phone isn’t doing a reboot, too, when it happens!
Here is my question: If you have enough money to afford a Tesla, why don’t you just stay home? Where do you think you need to go? Honestly?
That's what you get for driving one of these dumbass cars.
Seriously. Support fascists, get fascist product designs. Simple.
This is an article about a girl being dumb as shit moreso than a problem with Teslas.
That being said, I don’t want software updates for a fucking car anyway
I hope that I don't die of suffocation and heat, but I can't afford my car breaking if I OPEN THE DOOR in the middle of an update.
She’s a moron. Normally when you open the door, the windows will slide down a half inch so they can clear the weather stripping as the door opens.
The emergency release just opens the door so the window will kind of drag through the weather stripping. I guess if you do this enough, it could damage the rubber seal. The car will warn you about it if you open the door that way, but by no means is it worth sweating to death in a car to avoid.
The one time I rode in a tesla, the car showed an angry message on the center screen because I opened the door with the door handle and that was wrong somehow. Apparently there's a secret second door handle that doesn't damage the weatherstripping.
Most car manufacturers have this figured out, they quite cleverly make the normal door handle and the manual release be the same handle.
What she did was stupid, but its really easy for people to push themselves thinking they are fine until they suddenly aren't. I'm sure she was thinking she could just open the door when it got too bad.
So instead of opening the door when it got too hot, she made a 40min Tik Tok that has been watched by more than 30mil viewers, documenting her fear for suffocating or having a heat stroke
Seriously. Reminds me of radio recordings of aspyxiated pilots. If it gets too bad, then it's already over. Pilots who unknowingly run out of oxygen just sit there zoned out not realizing that is happening and they are trained professionals!